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LLNL, Ampera partner to develop thorium-based TRISO fuel
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has formed a strategic partnership with Ampera to develop the company’s nuclear fuel concept through a project named THUNDER, for Thorium Unimodal Droplet Ejection for Reactors.
The focus of THUNDER is fabricating TRISO made with kernels of thorium rather than the usual uranium. LLNL and Ampera will evaluate and optimize liquid metal–jetting technology to produce highly uniform, spherical kernels of thorium-232 for later processing into TRISO fuel.
W. R. Corcoran, J. R. Humphries, H. J. Litke, J. D. LeBlanc
Nuclear Technology | Volume 22 | Number 2 | May 1974 | Pages 252-262
Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31407
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Radial, azimuthal, and axial xenon oscillation experiments were performed at Maine Yankee to confirm experimentally the theoretical predictions of stability with respect to these three primary modes of xenon oscillation. These experiments and the evaluation of the data to obtain damping factors are discussed briefly, and the results are compared with predictive calculations. Calculated damping factors, based on linear modal analysis techniques using a best estimate of the total power coefficient, are found to lie within the uncertainty bounds of the experimentally determined damping factors. The results of the axial experiments are also used in conjunction with results from calculational models to estimate the time in life at which the onset of divergent axial xenon oscillations may be expected.